Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
Pete and the Werewolf
Book – Pete and the WerewolfAuthor – Cassandra Pierce
Star rating - ★★★☆☆
No. of Pages – 61
Cover – Nice
POV – 3rd person, one character
Would I read it again – No
Genre – LGBT, Paranormal
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This was a decent story, for the length of it, but it felt like it could have been better if it had been longer, even just by about 50 pages or not.
Pete's POV was a great choice, since he didn't have the inside scoop on anything, so was the objective outside observer for the reader to follow. He was our eyes and ears, our suspicious mind in a voice and thought process that we were able to follow. However, his relationship with Vladimir was really quick. It's not quite insta-love, but there is definitely kissing on the first day and Pete getting a little obsessive and stalker-ish after a short amount of time. Personally, I might have believed the fast pace of the relationship more if Vladimir admitted at the end that it was all a cover-story. That might help along the fact that they were inseparable right from the word go. I found Pete too obsessive about the relationship for my comfort, considering the amount of time they'd been together, but on the other hand, the timeline wasn't consistently recognised, so they might have been together for months and I just wasn't aware.
There were a few editing issues, but very little of them which was great to see, and an inconsistency of name. It's called Hope Harbour in the blurb and the beginning of the book, but only once; for every other instance it's called Hope's Harbour. That niggled at me a little.
Overall, the ending was all a little too neat. It was clear to me, most of the way through, that there were only two real suspects and I was right, in the end. Pete accepted things too quickly, the relationship was too fast and the book was too short for the amount of plot and sub-plots. A decent read, but one that could have benefited from a little more detail, a more obvious timeline for the reader to follow and a few extra pages.
